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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We never touch but at points.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
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